Medical Manufacturing & Covid-19
During the Covid-19 crisis the full weight of America’s manufacturing might has been marshalled to make desperately needed ventilators, respirators, & other medical devices. Major manufacturers such as GM, Ford, and Tesla, just to name a few, have been converted to make medical supplies overnight. During these changes it is critical that manufacturers implement safe and efficient quick die change and quick mold change methods to keep their presses and injection mold processes running efficiently.
What is Medical Manufacturing?
The medical manufacturing industry covers implants, instruments and equipment intended for safety, therapeutics, monitoring and diagnostics. These include ventilators, respirators, medical diagnostic equipment & other life-saving medical apparatuses.
Injection Mold & Die Press Efficiency
Only 80 to 90 percent of injection molding machine capacity time actually consists of productive operation. Valuable manufacturing time is lost due to scheduled downtime and technical failures as well as the set-up process. It’s important to make your production as efficient as possible which includes reducing time between mold or die changes.
The best way to keep production efficiency high is with an efficient die or mold change. A properly designed mold change system can save any manufacturer millions per year while producing thousands more products. This holds true for die presses as well. In either case, reducing the downtime of an injection mold system or die press is the best way to increase efficiency.
Green Valley Manufacturing and the Medical Industry
Green Valley Manufacturing has a long standing history with medical manufacturing. We understand that time is always of the essence in the medical industry whether it’s changing out a mold faster or simply getting a patient the ventilator they need to live. That’s why we’ve dedicated ourselves to partnering with medical manufacturers in the development and implementation of quick mold or die change systems needed to keep presses running and supplying our hospitals, doctors, and nurses with the equipment they need during this crisis.
Through the years we have developed die carts, mold carts, racks, transporters, and trailers all custom built for a specific application. Everything we do is dedicated to facilitating a faster, more efficient quick mold change or quick die change.
